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A community is a group of people who live or work in the same area and who share common interests, values, and goals. Communities can be small, such as a neighborhood, or large, such as a city or a country. The members of a community may be connected by social, economic, cultural, or other ties. Communities often have a sense of identity and may have shared institutions, such as schools, religious organizations, or community centers. The strength and vitality of a community can be an important factor in the well-being of its members.

Florida’s Human Trafficking Summit helps detect traffickers and rescue victims
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Florida’s Human Trafficking Summit helps detect traffickers and rescue victims

Florida’s Human Trafficking Summit Aaron Mesmer reports. TAMPA, Fla. – Florida’s Human Trafficking Summit kicked off Tuesday, as experts discussed ways to end human trafficking and help survivors. The conference, which is online and free to the public, brings together survivors, law enforcement, prosecutors, victim advocates and community leaders who are committed to combating human…

Washington is failing to aid child sex-trafficking victims
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Washington is failing to aid child sex-trafficking victims

Safe Harbor’s rocky start in Washington exposes a key question that state actors are still struggling to answer: “If we’re not arresting kids, great — but then what?” Benke said. ‘These are victims’ In the mid-1990s, Benke was 16 and homeless in Seattle. One day, as she broke down sobbing on the street, she remembers…

Tarrant County 5 Stones September 2023 Meeting
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Tarrant County 5 Stones September 2023 Meeting

Here is our recorded meeting link and chat notes for our September 2023 TC 5 Stones meeting! Our 5 Stones meeting this September consisted of some law enforcement updates and a presentation by Carrie Grace, Executive Director of Freedom Shield Foundation, as she discussed the importance of self-care and avoiding burnout as service providers. Link to the recorded meeting: https://youtu.be/5OzWyCSuUHw…

For Virginia survivors, the scars of human trafficking may include a criminal record they can’t erase
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For Virginia survivors, the scars of human trafficking may include a criminal record they can’t erase

After that, rape became a regular part of her life. But landlords and employers don’t see the years Holmes spent as a human trafficking victim. They just see the litany of charges — including identity theft and drug possession — that came about as a …

Hochul signs bills to combat human trafficking – The Gloversville Leader Herald
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Hochul signs bills to combat human trafficking – The Gloversville Leader Herald

Gov. Kathy Hochul signed a package of bills into law Wednesday that aim to combat human trafficking and expand the state’s anti-human trafficking task force and length of duty. The group of six bills will require Port Authority of New York and New Jersey, commercial service airports and bus stops, MTA facilities, truck stops and…

“Dead Man Walking” at Sing Sing
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“Dead Man Walking” at Sing Sing

Photograph by Karen Almond / Courtesy Met Opera The epigraph to Sister Helen Prejean’s book “Dead Man Walking,” published in 1993, is from “The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn”: “I went right along, not fixing up any particular plan, but just trusting in Providence to put the right words in my mouth when the time come:…

DOUGLAS USA Becomes Official Mississippi Businesses Against Trafficking (MBAT) Partner to Combat Human Trafficking
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DOUGLAS USA Becomes Official Mississippi Businesses Against Trafficking (MBAT) Partner to Combat Human Trafficking

COLUMBUS, MISSISSIPPI, UNITED STATES, September 26, 2023 /EINPresswire.com/ — The DOUGLAS USA LLC – CONSULTANCY (DOUGLAS USA) announces it is an official Mississippi Businesses Against Trafficking (MBAT) partner to combat human trafficking. The MBAT website (https://www.sos.ms.gov/mbat) provides business owner partners with educational materials that identify types of human trafficking, warning signs, and ways to enhance…

CR Ep 094: Human Trafficking Preventucation with Billy Joe Cain and NASA UAP Report with Mike Turber
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CR Ep 094: Human Trafficking Preventucation with Billy Joe Cain and NASA UAP Report with Mike Turber

Posted on September 20, 2023 Read the original on CuriousRealm.com here. In the first part of this episode of the Curious Realm host Christopher Jordan welcomes founder of Radical Empathy Education Foundation and co-founder of PBJ Learning, Billy Joe Cain. We discuss recent developments in the cause of human trafficking prevention, and how groundbreaking technologies like Virtual Reality can…

Stratford-area school boards working with local partners to combat child exploitation
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Stratford-area school boards working with local partners to combat child exploitation

The Avon Maitland and Huron Perth Catholic district school boards recently hosted a symposium aimed at educating partner agencies in the community about child exploitation and human trafficking. Two local school boards are working together with provincial police, local victim services and 25 community agencies and partners across Huron and Perth counties to prevent and…